Microsoft dispels Halo Wars PC news
We know that Microsoft’s Ensemble Studios is hard at work on the next fix in the franchise - the Halo Wars real-time strategy game but if a report on the gaming web site Angry Pixel is to be believed, the final game will support cross-platform play between the Xbox 360 and PC versions. Yep, we know - a PC version of Halo Wars hasn’t even been announced yet. We’ll let Angry Pixel explain:
“Halo Wars, touted as an Xbox 360 exclusive, is also apparently in development for the PC. But that’s not all - apparently the game will also feature cross-platform play, a la UNO and Shadowrun, between gamers on the Microsoft console and their PC counterparts,” the site reports, citing one of its “friends over at Microsoft.”
Update: We contacted Microsoft to see if their was any truth to the rumor, and a company rep told us there’s still no PC version of the game planned, effectively nixing any possibilty of cross-platform PC/360 play.
“Halo Wars is being developed from the bottom up for the Xbox 360 and its control scheme to ensure that we deliver a groundbreaking console RTS experience. Given that, we have no plans to develop ‘Halo Wars’ for Windows Vista at this time,” Microsoft said.
When we previewed Halo Wars at the Games Convention in Germany last year, the game’s executive producer, Harter Ryan, was even more blunt about the issue.
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